ABSTRACT
A critical analytical step towards recognising sequence in a text is to unpack any metaphorical realisations involved. Patterns of sequence can be distinguished by several variables, including different choices of entities, figures and connexions that are involved in the sequence. Different patterns of sequence offer criteria for distinguishing activities construed at the level of field. The first pattern of connecting occurrence figures into a sequence is through temporal connexions. A second way of connecting occurrence figures externally into a sequence is through causal connexions. Depending on whether the occurrence figures are enacted or observed, two different patterns of sequences are at stake. The chapter discusses the ‘externalised’ internal sequencing, revealing that ideational discourse semantic resource plays an important role in construing an activity that manages interactions among various fields within the broader disciplinary field of science.
